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To sell in individual congressional districts that get hurt? >> i think the big issue here is that the annual spending by congress, the things congress votes on every year are the places where we do national security, basic research, education, infrastructure, where you invest as the federal government and what the founders saw in federal government. the real money is in the entitlement programs. social security, medicare, medicaid. and any strategy that wants to make a significant cut for some ...

Lets watch. >> what we now see is a budget that reflects our values, that grows our economy, creates jobs, keeps america safe. it is going to strengthen the middle class by investing in critical areas like education and job training, basic research. it keeps us safe by investing in our national security and making sure that our troops get what you need in order to keep us safe, perform all the outstanding duties they do around the world. it protects seniors avoiding harmful cuts to medicare and ...

We can put some of them up on the screen. one of those companies, the battery matter, the same chinese company that just bought fisker also bought that. the more we spend, the more the chinese are raking it in buying these companies at a fire sale. >> yeah, i want to correct rick. i invented television. >> you were just its first big star. >> forbes is tv! >> but its one thing for government to do basic research. quite another to pretend its an investment banker. leave investment banking for oth...

There are some fire issues here that that is the problem. >> theyre huge. [ overtalk ] >> solyndra. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. stick with the issue you put on the table. >> these are the facts. >> the national fire protection association has not suggested getting rid of solar. you know what they suggested? they want to mount warnings on the wall of buildings that have the solar panels and they want to -- im going to finish, thank you. they want to train firemen to deal with this. >> david: all the nan...

That, taken on that role so he was raising awareness. we often see harry the party boy get into trouble a little bit but this is where he really shines and really comes into his own by representing the charities and representing the royal family. >> we like to move forward but we cant without taking a minor brief look at the fact the last time he was here that unofficial trip in vegas he got just a minor trouble from but you know. >> were all young. everyones young and actually in the uk i think...

But either way the problem is not getting fixed. the only way the problem does get fixed is if both parties sit down and they say, how are we going to make sure that we are reducing our deficit sensibly? how do we make sure we are investing in things like rebuilding our airports and roads and bridges and investing in early childhood education, basic research, awful the things that will help us grow, and thats what the american people want. one interesting str statistic when it comes to airports....

Reading what sam writes, what i write, you read what others write. i wrote a big piece about how this affects medical research at the most elemental and urgent level in terms of the translating the human jean dloem project for actual help for patients. thats happening right now. it is like not building the last middle miles of the trans continental railroad. the basic research was funneleded by the federal government. yet now the government because of sequester is cutting back on translating tha...

Shockingly, 89% of respondents said no. theres two types of scientific research, basic and applied. she correctly notes that basic research is the natural predecessor to applied research and notes that investment in the national science foundation is just over $20 per year per person, while it takes upward of $2,000 per year per person to fund the military. its the latest example of a tried and true tradition of attacks on government-funded research. writers and republican politicians and conser...

Conservative intellectual tradition is a kind of emphasis of humility on bureaucracy, government, central planning, and some of the best and wisest conservative writing emphasizes how little we know, how hard it is for institutions to predict the future. and it is, in a way, out of that spirit that we fund and embark upon basic research, because we do not know what we do not know. heres a classic example from an article in the new yorker about the worth of basic research. its a british lepadoptr...

Government that we can eliminate. but, we cant simply cut our way to prosperity. cutting spending has to go hand in hand with further reforms towards tax codes that wealthyest corporations and individuals can take advantage of loopholes and deductions that arent available to most americans. and we cant keep cutting egg things like basic research, new technology and still expect to succeed in the 21 century economy. so were going have to continue to move forward in deficit reduction, but we have ...